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Juan Williams

Where have all the liberal lions gone?

Since the deaths of Massachusetts’s Ted Kennedy and Minnesota’s Paul Wellstone, the Senate has not had a signal, outstanding liberal voice. The liberal faction even takes a back seat to conservative Dems who hold the threat of defecting and costing the party its majority on key votes for gun control, taxes and spending. The conservative Democrats stopped the Democratic majority in the Senate from passing a budget for the last four years for fear it might be attacked as “liberal.” …

Standing behind Reid are two contenders for the mantle of new generation liberal lion: New York’s Charles Schumer and Illinois’ Dick Durbin. Both are members of the “Gang of Eight,” which unveiled a comprehensive immigration proposal last week.

But both Majority Whip Durbin and Senate Policy Committee Chair Schumer are busy simply trying to hold their 55-member majority together in support of Obama’s agenda. Their focus is on keeping tabs on potential defections from conservative Democrats such as North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, Indiana’s Joe Donnelly, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Montana’s Jon Tester. …

There is no current Democratic senator close to commanding the kind of stature or authority that Kennedy did. Liberalism does not have a powerful advocate in the halls of Congress today and it shows.

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When the most liberal voter becomes President, what does liberal mean anymore? To the media, liberal means main stream, so its impossible to have a “liberal lion”. Its impossible for a Democrat to be extreme anymore.

Your just to close to the mirror to see that your all a bunch of co-enablers of the fraud.

Hug Lt. for Life, traitor, back stabing, fake awards and citations, re-manufactured DD-214, John Warner/Jimmy Carter new and improved Discharge,,, worthless crooked neck for us out in the I-Corps chasing the NVA down while he faced up his get out of Nam fraud awards.

Juan,,, look/it, you know yourself that it is all fraud, the CO2 con, the dole and dumb down, the wage/vote slave imported from Mexico, the Community Investment Act of Cime Home Loans, the fake and fraud solar scam, the windmills that cut up birds and tax money, ,,, if not,,, your dumb as a rock like you talk.

A crappy economy. A “recovery” much worse than the actual recession. Yearly trillion dollar deficits. 1 trillion spent last year on non-entitlement welfare. No plan to stop spending. 50 million Americans on food stamps. And yet Obama was re-elected because Romney was too moderate and his reputation was destroyed by class warfare slander. We’re perceived as vulnerable and weak around the globe.

In the cases of Kennedy or Wellstone, I think you have to prove your bona fides by either killing a woman or killing yourself as you debase any prior principles while you then try to prove no one can get to your left in your lefty voting districts. Death + leftiest = works best.